LADICO, the Libyan Arab Domestic Investment Company, was a private company based in Tripoli whose automobile division employed more than 1,000 people. On 6 September 1999, during the celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the revolution that brought Muammar Gaddafi to power, it unveiled the Saroukh el-Jamahiriya, or “Libyan Rocket”. It was the first new car introduced by a Libyan company. Chairman Dokali Megharieff said the car had taken two…
